Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18 (ed. Psychology Press, 1995) - ISBN: 9780415094108